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WEEKLY PLANNER
QUOTE CARDS
57
To the query, “What is a friend?”
his reply was, “A single soul
dwelling in two bodies.”
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure til
you know there is no hook beneath it.
Aristotle (384-322 BC)
Greek Philosopher
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
U.S. President
1
2
I hasten to laugh at everything for
fear of being obliged to weep at it.
If we do not find anything pleasant,
at least we shall find something new.
Pierre De Beaumarchais (1732-1799)
French Writer
Voltaire (1694-1778)
French Philosopher
3
4
She had an unequalled gift of squeezing
big mistakes into small opportunities.
One cool judgment is worth a thousand
hasty counsels. The thing to do is to
supply light and not heat.
Henry James (1843-1916)
U.S. Author
Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924)
U.S. President
5
6
If you don’t understand yourself
you don’t understand anybody else.
The shortest answer is doing.
English Proverb
Nikki Giovanni (b. 1943)
U.S. poet
7
58
8
Those who have the most to do and are
willing to work will find the most time.
Accountability in friendship is the
equivalent of love without strategy.
Samuel Smiles
Anita Brookner (b. 1938)
British Novelist
9
10
What is genius – but the power of
expressing new individuality?
The first element of greatness
is fundamental humbleness.
Elizabeth Barret Browning (1806-1861)
English Poet
Margot Asquith (1864-1945)
British Socialite
11
The giving is the hardest part;
what does it cost to add a smile?
12
Blessed are the peacemakers for they
shall be called the children of God.
Jean De La Bruyere (1645-1696)
French Writer
The Bible
13
14
Perfect courage is to do without
witnesses what one would be capable
of doing while the world is looking on.
To think is to act.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
U.S. Poet
Francois, Duc De La Rochefoucault
(1613-1680), French Writer
15
59
16
Virtue is reason which has become
energy.
Trust men, and they will be true to
you; treat them greatly, and they
will show themselves great.
Friedrich Schiegel (1772-1829)
German Philosopher
Ralph Walso Emerson (1803-1982)
U.S. Poet
17
18
Nature never said to me:
Do not be poor;
still less did she say: Be rich;
her cry to me was always:
Be independent.
The best index to a person’s
character is (a) how he treats people
who can’t do him any good, and
(b) how he treats people who can’t
fight back.
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Champort
(1741-1794) French Writer
Abigail Van Buren (b. 1918)
U.S. Columist
20
19
Grace under pressure.
Of the thirty-six alternatives,
running away is the best.
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
U.S. Author
Chinese Proverb
21
22
The supreme happiness of life is the
conviction that we are loved.
Patience and tenacity of purpose
are worth more than twice their
weight of cleverness.
Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
French Writer
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)
English Biologist
23
60
24
The best portion of a good man’s
life: His little, nameless,
unremembered acts of kindness
and love.
A journey of a thousand miles must
begin with a single step.
Lao Tzu (6th century)
Chinese Philosopher
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
English Poet
26
25
No man is useless while he has a friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
Scottish Writer
Work keeps us from three great
Evils: boredom, vice, and need.
Voltaire (1694-1778)
French Philosopher
27
28
Sure I am of this, that you only have
to endure to conquer. You only
have to persevere to save yourselves.
Even if happiness forgets you a little
bit, never completely forget about it.
Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
British Statesman
Jacques Prevert (1900-1977)
French Poet
29
Mistakes are a fact of life.
It is the response that counts.
30
Learn to listen. Opportunity
sometimes knocks very softly.
Nikki Giovanni (b. 1943)
U.S. Poet
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (b. 1940)
31
61
32
True creativity often starts
where language ends.
Commit yourself to constant
self-improvement.
Authur Koestler (1905-1983)
British Novelist
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (b. 1940)
33
34
One must always maintain one’s
connection to the past and yet
ceaselessly pull away from it.
Dost thou love life? Then do not
squander time, for that’s the stuff
life is made of.
Gaston Bachelard (1884-1962)
French Scientist
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
U. S. Statesman
35
36
Nothing is more dangerous than a
friend without discretion; even a
prudent enemy is preferable.
God gives every bird his worm,
but he does not throw it into the nest.
Jean De La Fontaine (1621-1695)
French Poet
P. D. James (b. 1920)
British Mystery Writer
37
38
The secret of life is not to do what
one likes but to like that which one
has to do.
The quality of strength lined with
tenderness is an unbeatable
combination.
Dinah Maria Muldock Craik
(1826-1887)
Maya Angelou (b. 1928)
U.S. Author
39
62
40
Of all days, the day on which one has
not laughed is the one most surely
wasted.
Every moment is a golden one for him
who has vision to recognize it as such.
Sebastian-Roch Nicholas De Chamfort
(1741-1794) French Writer
Henry Miller (1891-1980)
U.S. Author
41
42
Judge your success by the degree
that you’re enjoying peace, health,
and love.
Life is like a bag of snakes,
you don’t know which ones are
poisonous until they bite you.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (b. 1940)
Anonymous
43
The coward may die a thousand
deaths, the brave but one.
44
If God be for us,
who can be against us?
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
English Writer
The Bible: Romans 8:31
45
46
Life is not a dress rehearsal.
If you have only one smile in you,
give it to the people you love.
Rose Tremain (b. 1943)
British Author
Maya Angelou (b. 1928)
U.S. Author
47
63
48
Leave everything a little better
than you found it.
Be brave.
Even if you are not, pretend to be.
No one can tell the difference.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (b. 1940)
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (b. 1940)
49
50
Be courteous to all,
but intimate with a few.
Fun is a good thing, but only when it
spoils nothing better.
George Washington (1732-1799)
U.S. President
George Santayana (1863-1952)
U.S. Philosopher
51
52
First things first.
Live and let live.
Alcoholics Anonymous Slogan
Alcoholics Anonymous Slogan
53
54
Easy does it.
One day at a time.
Alcoholics Anonymous Slogan
Alcoholics Anonymous Slogan
55
64
56
Just for today.
Check yourself before you
wreck yourself.
Alcoholics Anonymous Slogan
Alcoholics Anonymous Slogan
57
Surrender to win.
58
Acceptance is the answer
to all my problems today.
Alcoholics Anonymous Slogan
Alcoholics Anonymous Slogan
59
60
Let go and let God.
Turn it over.
Alcoholics Anonymous Slogan
Alcoholics Anonymous Slogan
61
62
'Tis a rule of manners to avoid
exaggeration.
From quiet homes and first beginnings,
out to the undiscovered ends, there’s
nothing worth the war of winning but
laughter and love of friends.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
U. S. Poet
Hilaire Balloc (1870-1953)
British Author
63
65
64
I started out by believing God
for a newer car than the one
I was driving. I started out believing
God for a nicer apartment than I had.
Then I moved up.
To be happy is to be able to
become aware of oneself without
fright.
Walter Benjamin (1892-1940)
German Philosopher
Henri-Frederic Amiel (1821-1881)
Swiss Poet
65
66
The natural flights of the human mind
are not from pleasure to pleasure,
but from hope to hope.
A few honest men are
better than numbers.
Samual Johnson (1709-1784)
English Author
Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658)
67
68
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love
under the pretense of keeping it alive.
Conceit spoils the finest genius.
Havelock Ellis (1855-1939)
British Psychologist
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
Author
69
Conviction is the conscience of intellect.
Sebastien-Roch Nicholas De Chamfort
(1741-1794) French Writer
70
Set the foot down with distrust on
the crust of the world – it is thin.
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)
71
66
72
Most of us are about as eager to change
as we were to be born, and go through
our changes in a similar state of shock.
The thirst for adventure is
the vent which destiny offers.
James Baldwin (1824-1887)
U.S. Author
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
U. S. Poet
74
73
Action is character.
They are ill discoverers that think
there is no land when they see
nothing but sea.
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
U.S. Author
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
English Philosopher
76
75
Everything that is beautiful and
noble is the product of reason and
calculation.
Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.
Charles Baudelaine (1821-1867)
French Poet
Henri-Frederic Amiel (1821-1881)
Swiss Poet
77
78
The problems of victory are more
agreeable than the problems of
defeat, but they are no less difficult.
Focus on making things better
not bigger.
Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
British Statesman
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (b. 1940)
79
67
80
Vitality shows not only the ability to
persist but the ability to start over.
Without passion man is a mere latent
force and possibility, like the flint
which awaits the shock of iron before
it can give forth its spark.
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
U. S. Author
Henri-Frederic Amiel (1821-1881)
Swiss Philosopher
81
82
We are not what we are, nor do we
treat or esteem each other for such,
but for what we are capable of being.
A good name is rather to be chosen
than great riches, and loving favor
rather than silver and gold.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
U. S. Philosopher
The Bible: Proverbs 22:1
83
84
We make a ladder of our vices if we
trample those same vices underfoot.
If you can meet with triumph and
disaster and treat those imposters just
the same…you’ll be a man my son.
St. Augustine (354-430 A.D.)
Christian Saint
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
British Author
85
86
You probably have other quotes
that you would like to include in the
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blank cards so that you can add your
favorite quotes. We encourage the users
of The Weekly Planner to create and
use their own quotes.
Teach us delight in simple things
and mirth that has no bitter springs.
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
British Author
87
68
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
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WEEKLY PLANNER QUOTE LIST
To the query, "What is a friend"
his reply was,
“A single soul
dwelling in two bodies.”
Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
If you don’t understand yourself
you don’t understand anybody
else.
Nikki Giovanni (b. 1943)
U.S. Poet
To think is to act.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803-82)
U. S. Poet
001
008
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✵✵✵
✵✵✵
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure,
till you know there is no
hook beneath it.
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
U.S. President
Those who have the most
to do and are willing to work
will find the most time.
Samuel Smiles
002
✵✵✵
Perfect courage is to do
without witnesses
what one would be capable
of doing with the world
looking on.
Francois,
Duc De La Rochefoucauld
(1613-80) French Writer
✵✵✵
I hasten to laugh at
everything for fear of
being obliged to
weep at it.
Pierre De Beaumarchais
(1732-99)
French Dramatist
003
✵✵✵
If we do not find anything
pleasant, at least we shall
find something new.
Voltaire (1694-1778)
French Philosopher
004
✵✵✵
She had an unequalled gift...
of squeezing big mistakes
into small opportunities.
Henry James (1843-1916)
U.S. Author
005
✵✵✵
One cool judgement
is worth a thousand
hasty counsels.
Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924)
U.S. President
006
✵✵✵
The shortest answer is doing.
English Proverb
009
Accountability in friendship is the
equivalent of love without strategy.
Anita Brookner (b. 1938)
British Novelist
010
✵✵✵
What is genius—
but the power of expressing
new individuality?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(1806-1861) English Poet
011
✵✵✵
The first element of greatness
is fundamental humbleness.
Margot Asquith (1864-1945)
British Socialite
012
✵✵✵
The giving is the hardest part.
W hat does it cost to add a smile?
Jean De La Bruyere (1645-96)
French Writer
013
✵✵✵
Blessed are the peacemakers:
for they shall be called
the children of God.
Matthew. 5:9, KJV Bible
014
✵✵✵
007
✵✵✵
70
015
016
✵✵✵
Vitality shows not only
the ability to persist
but the ability to start over.
F. Scott Fitzgerald (18961940)
U.S. Author
017
✵✵✵
Trust men, and they will
be true to you;
treat them greatly,
and they will show
themselves great.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
(U. S. Poet)
018
✵✵✵
Nature never said to me:
Do not be poor;
Still less did she say:
Be rich;
her cry to me was always:
Be independent.
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas
De Champort (1741-94)
French Writer
019
✵✵✵
The best index to a person’s
character is (a) how he
treats people who can’t
do him any good, and
(b) how he treats people
who can’t fight back.
Abigail Van Buren (b.1918)
U.S. Columnist
No man is useless
while he has a friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson
(1850-94)
Scottish Novelist
020
Work keeps us from
the three great evils:
boredom, vice, and need.
Anonymous Proverb
✵✵✵
Grace under pressure.
Ernest Hemingway
(1899-1961) U.S. Author
021
✵✵✵
Of the thirty-six alternatives,
running away is best.
Chinese Proverb
022
✵✵✵
The supreme happiness
of life is the conviction
that we are loved.
Les Miserables
Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
French Novelist
023
✵✵✵
Patience and tenacity of
purpose are worth more
than twice their weight of
cleverness.
Thomas Henry Huxley
(1825-95)
English Biologist
027
✵✵✵
028
✵✵✵
Sure I am of this, that you
only have to endure to conquer.
You only have to persevere
to save yourselves.
Sir Winston Churchill
(1874-1965)
British Statesman
029
✵✵✵
Even if happiness forgets you
a little bit, never completely
forget about it.
Jacques Prévert (1900-1977)
French Poet
030
✵✵✵
Mistakes are a fact of life.
It is the response that counts.
Nikki Giovanni (b. 1943)
U.S. Poet
031
✵✵✵
024
✵✵✵
A journey of a thousand miles
must begin with a single step.
Lau Tzu (6th Century)
025
Learn to listen.
Opportunity sometimes
knocks very softly.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
(b. 1940)
032
✵✵✵
✵✵✵
The best portion of a good
man’s life: His little,
nameless, unremembered
acts of kindness
and of love.
William Wordsworth
(1770-1850) English Poet
True creativity often starts
where language ends.
Arthur Koestler (1905-83)
British Novelist
033
✵✵✵
026
✵✵✵
Commit yourself to constant
self-improvement.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
(b. 1940)
034
✵✵✵
One must always maintain
one’s connection to the past
and yet ceaselessly pull
away from it.
Gaston Bachelard
(1884-1962)
French Scientist
035
✵✵✵
Dost thou love life? Then
do not squander time,
for that’s the
stuff life is made of.
Benjamin Franklin
(1706-1790)
American Statesman
036
✵✵✵
Nothing is more dangerous
than a friend without
discretion; even a prudent
enemy is preferable.
Jean De La Fontaine
(1621-1695) French Poet
037
✵✵✵
God gives every bird his
worm, but He does not
throw it into the nest.
P.D. James (b. 1920)
British Mystery Writer
038
✵✵✵
The secret of life is not to do
what one likes, but to like
that which one has to do.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
(b. 1940)
039
✵✵✵
The quality of strength
lined with tenderness is an
unbeatable combination.
Maya Angelou (b. 1928)
U.S. Author
040
✵✵✵
71
Of all days, the day on
which one has not
laughed is the one most
surely wasted.
Sebastian-Roch Nicholas
De Chamfort
(1741-94) French Writer
041
✵✵✵
Every moment is a golden
one for him who has vision
to recognize it as such.
Henry Miller (1891-1980)
U. S. Author
042
✵✵✵
Judge your success by the
degree that you’re enjoying
peace, health, and love.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
(b. 1940)
043
✵✵✵
Life is like a bag of snakes.
You don’t know which ones
are poisonous till they bite you.
Anonymous
044
✵✵✵
The coward may die a
thousand deaths,
the brave but one.
Shakespeare (1564-1616)
English Dramatist
045
Leave everything a little
better than you found it.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
(b. 1940)
049
✵✵✵
Be brave.
Even if you’re not, pretend to be.
No one can tell the difference.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
(b. 1940)
050
✵✵✵
Be courteous to all,
but intimate with a few.
George Washington (1732-99)
U.S. President
051
✵✵✵
Fun is a good thing but only
when it spoils nothing better.
George Santayana (1863-1952)
U.S. Philosopher
052
✵✵✵
First things first.
Alcoholics Anonymous
053
✵✵✵
Live and let live.
Alcoholics Anonymous
054
✵✵✵
Easy does it.
Alcoholics Anonymous
055
✵✵✵
046
✵✵✵
One day at a time.
Alcoholics Anonymous
Life is not a dress rehearsal.
Rose Tremain (b. 1943)
British Author
056
047
✵✵✵
✵✵✵
Acceptance is the answer to
all my problems today.
Alcoholics Anonymous
060
✵✵✵
Let go and let God.
Alcoholics Anonymous
061
✵✵✵
Turn it over.
Alcoholics Anonymous
062
✵✵✵
’Tis a rule of manners to
avoid exaggeration.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803-1882) U.S. Poet
063
✵✵✵
From quiet homes and first
beginnings, Out to the
undiscovered ends,
There’s nothing worth
the wear of winning
But laughter and
the love of friends.
Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953)
British Author
064
To be happy is to be able
to become aware of
oneself without fright.
Walter Benjamin (1892-1940)
German Philosopher
065
✵✵✵
✵✵✵
Just for today.
Narcotics Anonymous
057
✵✵✵
If you have only one smile in u
you give it to the people
you love.
Maya Angelou (b. 1928)
U.S. Author
Check yourself before
you wreck yourself.
Alcoholics Anonymous
048
058
✵✵✵
059
✵✵✵
✵✵✵
If God be for us
who can be against us?
Romans 8:31, KJV Bible
Surrender to win.
Narcotics Anonymous
✵✵✵
72
I started out by believing
God for a newer car
than the one I was driving.
I started out believing God
for a nicer apartment than
I had. Then I moved up.
Henri-Frederic Amiel
(1821-1881)
Swiss Poet
066
✵✵✵
A few honest men are better
than numbers.
Oliver Cromwell
(1599-1658)
The thirst for adventure is the
vent which Destiny offers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803-1882)
067
074
✵✵✵
✵✵✵
The natural flights of the
human mind are not from
pleasure to pleasure, but from
hope to hope.
Samual Johnson (1709-1784)
English Author
Action is character.
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
U.S. Author
068
✵✵✵
Jealousy, that dragon which
slays love under the
pretence of keeping it alive.
Havelock Ellis (1855-1939)
British Psychologist
069
✵✵✵
Conceit spoils the
finest genius.
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
American Author
070
✵✵✵
Conviction is the conscience
of intellect.
Sebastien-Roch Nicholas
de Chamfort (1741-1794)
French Writer
071
072
✵✵✵
They are ill discoverers
that think there is no land
when they see nothing but sea.
Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
English Philosopher
073
✵✵✵
✵✵✵
A good name is rather
to be chosen than great riches,
and loving favor rather than
silver and gold.
Proverbs 22:1
083
✵✵✵
076
✵✵✵
Everything that is beautiful and
noble is the product of
reason and calculation.
Charles Baudelaine (1821-1867)
French Poet
077
✵✵✵
Uncertainty is the
refuge of hope.
Henri-Frederic Amiel
(1821-1881)
Swiss Poet
078
✵✵✵
Focus on making things
better, not bigger.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
(b. 1940)
079
✵✵✵
✵✵✵
Most of us are about as
eager to change as we were
to be born, and
go through our changes in a
similar state of shock.
James Baldwin (1924-1987)
U.S. Author
082
075
✵✵✵
Set the foot down with
distrust on the crust of the
world—it is thin.
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)
Without passion man is a mere
latent force and possibility,
like the flint which awaits
the shock of iron before it can
give forth its spark.
Henri-Frederic Amiel
(1821-1881)
Swiss Philosopher
The problems of victory are
more agreeable than the problems of
defeat, but they are no less difficult.
Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
British Statesman
080
✵✵✵
Virtue is reason which has
become energy.
Friedrich Schliegel
(1772-1829)
German Philosopher
081
✵✵✵
73
We are not what we are,
nor do we treat or esteem
each other for such,
but for what we are
capable of being.
Henry David Thoreau
(1717-1862)
U.S. Philosopher
084
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We make a ladder
of our vices,
if we trample those same
vices underfoot.
St. Augustine
(354-430 A.D.)
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If you can meet with
triumph and disaster and
treat those two imposters
just the same . . .
You’ll be a man my son.
Rudyard Kipling
(1865-1936)
British Author
086
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Teach us delight
in simple things
and mirth that has
no bitter, springs.
Rudyard Kipling
(1865-1936)
British Author
087
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